Bingowings said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Bingowings said:

Robocop 2 (the cyborg) was meant to be cutting edge technology, a more advanced version of the the first Robocop so having a giant plasma screen pop out of it's head for no good reason and do the growling Max Headroom thing really buggered up my enjoyment of a good film when it first came out and it looks much worse now.

It could have been worse. The cyborg himself could have been entirely CGI ;-)

In terms of looks, Grievous and Robocop 2 were about as convincing as each other.

Maximillian in The Black Hole was much more menacing than either of them and he was almost entirely a physical prop but the CGI Cylon Centurions in NuGalactica were also as threatening.

What made Grievous so goofy was more in the lines he said and the manner he was made to say them than the techniques used to render him.

If he had been vocally silent like Robocop 2 (sans CGI telly head) he would have been much more intimidating.

If you write Dirk Dastardly dialogue for a character it had better be a comedy no matter how that character is rendered.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of good old Max when Grevious does his four arm blender impression. We need a "separated at birth" character thread sometime.

I recall one reviewer who called Maximillian a Vader rip off. Oh the irony!